Charles Ives Music Festival offers a fresh take on the America 250 celebrations ...

Charles Ives Studio at the American Academy of Arts and Letters (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) Object by object, some 3,000 artifacts from the studio of composer Charles Ives have ...

In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future. Halley Erskine/Yale UniversityCharles Ives circa 1948 Long before his death in 1954, at 80, Charles Ives ...

A new take on Wynton Marsalis’s “Blues Symphony,” a piano cycle by Gregory Spears and Rosa Feola’s solo debut are among the highlights. This pioneering composer is not the easiest to love. But while ...

My favorite Charles Ives quote dates from 1931, when the composer was in New York for the first public performance of his "Three Places in New England." It was hissed and booed, but Ives seemed ...

Charles Ives — that brilliant, visionary, utterly original and perfectly down-to-earth composer — may have written some of the most astonishing American music of the 20th century, but with a ...

At the American Academy of Arts and Letters at Audubon Terrace in Washington Heights, you can view the Connecticut studio of a famous American composer recreated piece by piece. Charles Edward Ives ...

Charles Ives' "Symphony No. 3" won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

The more Charles Ives I hear, the more I adore him. He is the quintessential American composer, an autodidact, a musical genius. And he was a successful insurance broker. Every text about him mentions ...

Long before his death in 1954, at 80, Charles Ives seemed less like the father of American music than an eccentric uncle whose antic behavior and uncensored opinions at birthdays and funerals ...